Oncologists Endorse Divergent ‘Best Practices’ for Disclosing Prognosis in Advanced Pediatric Cancer (RP124)
1. Describe (and self-reflect on) how clinicians may make assumptions about what prognostic information patients/families want to hear and how they want to hear it, as well as how clinicians may lack comfort in eliciting these preferences directly from patients/families.2. Recognize a deficit in s takeholder-driven guidance to encourage and support clinicians in provision of person-centered, timely prognostic communication in advanced childhood cancer and other pediatric serious illnesses.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Erica C. Kaye, Harmony Farner, Shoshana Mehler, Nidhi Mali, Kelly Bien, Justin N. Baker, Jennifer Mack Source Type: research
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